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Mathur, H. S. Land resource evaluation by remote sensing. Jaipur, India: Pointer Publishers, 1990.

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Bogle, David C. Resource directory for computer based learning in land use and environmental sciences. Aberdeen: CTI Centre for Land Use Studies, University of Aberdeen, 1994.

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Lane, Charles R. Who should own the range?: New thinking on pastoral resource tenure in drylands Africa. London: International Institute for Environment and Development, Drylands Programme, 1994.

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), National Applied Resource Sciences Center (U S. National Applied Resource Sciences Center : FY 1999 : annual report. [Denver, Colo.]: United States, Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, National Applied Resource Sciences Center, 1999.

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Mainstreaming drylands issues into national development frameworks: Generic guidelines and lessons learnt. Nairobi: United Nations Development Programme, Drylands Development Centre, 2008.

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Resources, Canada Natural. The contribution of earth sciences to sustainable land and resource management: A Canadian contribution to the land use dialogue at the eighth session of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development, April 24-May 5, 2000. Ottawa: Natural Resources Canada, 2000.

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Radosevich, Steven R. Ecology of weeds and invasive plants: Relationship to agriculture and natural resource management. 3rd ed. Hoboken, N.J: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007.

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Dixon, John A. The economics of dryland management. London: Earthscan Publications Ltd., 1989.

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Canada. The contribution of earth sciences to sustainable land and resource management : a Canadian contribution to the land use dialogue at the eighth session of the United Nations Commission on Sustanable Development, April 24 to May 5, 2000 =: La contribution des sciences de la Terre à la gestion durable des ressources et des terres : une contribution canadienne au dialogue sur l'utilisation des terres qui se tiendra la huitième session de la Commission du développement durable des Nations Unies, du 24 avril au 5 mai 2000. Ottawa, Ont: Environment Canada = Environnement Canada, 2000.

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American Society of Pharmacognosy. Interim Annual Meeting. Intellectual property rights, naturally derived bioactive compounds and resource conservation: Proceedings of an international symposium, San Jose, Costa Rica, October 20-22, 1994. Edited by Soejarto Djaja Djendoel and Rivier Laurent. Shannon: Elsevier Science Ireland, 1996.

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Arid Land Systems: Sciences and Societies. MDPI, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/books978-3-03921-348-1.

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Wilshire, Howard G., Richard W. Hazlett, and Jane E. Nielson. The American West at Risk. Oxford University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195142051.001.0001.

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The American West at Risk summarizes the dominant human-generated environmental challenges in the 11 contiguous arid western United States - America's legendary, even mythical, frontier. When discovered by European explorers and later settlers, the west boasted rich soils, bountiful fisheries, immense, dense forests, sparkling streams, untapped ore deposits, and oil bonanzas. It now faces depletion of many of these resources, and potentially serious threats to its few "renewable" resources. The importance of this story is that preserving lands has a central role for protecting air and water quality, and water supplies--and all support a healthy living environment. The idea that all life on earth is connected in a great chain of being, and that all life is connected to the physical earth in many obvious and subtle ways, is not some new-age fad, it is scientifically demonstrable. An understanding of earth processes, and the significance of their biological connections, is critical in shaping societal values so that national land use policies will conserve the earth and avoid the worst impacts of natural processes. These connections inevitably lead science into the murkier realms of political controversy and bureaucratic stasis. Most of the chapters in The American West at Risk focus on a human land use or activity that depletes resources and degrades environmental integrity of this resource-rich, but tender and slow-to-heal, western U.S. The activities include forest clearing for many purposes; farming and grazing; mining for aggregate, metals, and other materials; energy extraction and use; military training and weapons manufacturing and testing; road and utility transmission corridors; recreation; urbanization; and disposing of the wastes generated by everything that we do. We focus on how our land-degrading activities are connected to natural earth processes, which act to accelerate and spread the damages we inflict on the land. Visit www.theamericanwestatrisk.com to learn more about the book and its authors.

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J, Skujin̦š, ed. Semiarid lands and deserts: Soil resource and reclamation. New York: M. Dekker, 1991.

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Mohamed, A. M. O., ed. Arid Land Hydrogeology: In Search of a Solution to a Threatened Resource. CRC Press, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781439833421.

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Bangladesh: In quest of resource management domains. Dhaka: Dept. of Soil, Water, and Environment, University of Dhaka, 2003.

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United Nations. Commission on Sustainable Development. and Canada Natural Resources Canada, eds. The contribution of earth sciences to sustainable land and resource management. Ottawa: Natural Resources Canada, 2000.

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Wolfgang, Meckelein, Mensching Horst, International Geographical Union. Working Group on Resource Management in Drylands., and International Geographical Congress (25th : 1984 : Stuttgart, Germany), eds. Resource management in drylands: Results of the precongress symposium at Stuttgart August 23.-25., 1984, on occassion of the 25th International Geographical Congress 1984. Stuttgart: Geographisches Institut der Universität Stuttgart, 1985.

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Arid Land Hydrogeology: In Search of a Solution to a Threatened Resource: Proceedings of the Third Joint UAE-Japan Symposium onSustainable GCC Envisonment ... in Arid Regions Research Series). Taylor & Francis, 2006.

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations., ed. Arid zone forestry: A guide for field technicians. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1989.

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the, Food and Agriculture Organization of. Arid Zone Forestry: A Guide for Field Technicians (Fao Conservation Guide, 20). Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FA, 1989.

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Ecology of Weeds and Invasive Plants: Relationship to Agriculture and Natural Resource Management. 3rd ed. Wiley-Interscience, 2007.

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Holt, Jodie S., Claudio M. Ghersa, and Steven R. Radosevich. Ecology of Weeds and Invasive Plants: Relationship to Agriculture and Natural Resource Management. Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 2007.

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Gyllenhaal, C., and N. R. Farnsworth. Intellectual Property Rights, Naturally Derived Bioactive Compounds and Resource Conservation. Elsevier Science, 1996.

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Mohamed, A. M. O. Arid Land Hydrogeology : in Search of a Solution to a Threatened Resource: Proceedings of the Third Joint UAE-Japan Symposium on Sustainable GCC Environment and Water Resources , 28 - 30 January 2006, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Taylor & Francis Group, 2006.

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Mohamed, A. M. O. Arid Land Hydrogeology : in Search of a Solution to a Threatened Resource: Proceedings of the Third Joint UAE-Japan Symposium on Sustainable GCC Environment and Water Resources , 28 - 30 January 2006, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Taylor & Francis Group, 2006.

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United Nations. Commission on Sustainable Development., ed. The contribution of earth sciences to sustainable land and resource management: A Canadian contribution to the land use dialogue at the eighth session of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development, April 24 to May 5, 2000. Ottawa, Canada: [Environment Canada], 2000.

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E, James David, Paul B. Sherman, and John A. Dixon. Economics of Dryland Management. Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.

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James, David E., Paul B. Sherman, and John A. Dixon. The Economics of Dryland Management. Earthscan Pubns Ltd, 1989.

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Colby, Bonnie G., and Tamra Pearson d'Estrée. Braving the Currents: Evaluating Environmental Conflict Resolution in the River Basins of the American West (Natural Resource Management and Policy). Springer, 2004.

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McKenzie, NJ, MJ Grundy, R. Webster, and AJ Ringrose-Voase. Guidelines for Surveying Soil and Land Resources. CSIRO Publishing, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9780643095809.

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Guidelines for Surveying Soil and Land Resources promotes the development and implementation of consistent methods and standards for conducting soil and land resource surveys in Australia. These surveys are primarily field operations that aim to identify, describe, map and evaluate the various kinds of soil or land resources in specific areas. The advent of geographic information systems, global positioning systems, airborne gamma radiometric remote sensing, digital terrain analysis, simulation modelling, efficient statistical analysis and internet-based delivery of information has dramatically changed the scene in the past two decades. As successor to the Australian Soil and Land Survey Handbook: Guidelines for Conducting Surveys, this authoritative guide incorporates these new methods and techniques for supporting natural resource management. Soil and land resource surveyors, engineering and environmental consultants, commissioners of surveys and funding agencies will benefit from the practical information provided on how best to use the new technologies that have been developed, as will professionals in the spatial sciences such as geomorphology, ecology and hydrology.

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Fensholt, Rasmus, Cheikh Mbow, Martin Brandt, and Kjeld Rasmussen. Desertification and Re-Greening of the Sahel. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.553.

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In the past 50 years, human activities and climatic variability have caused major environmental changes in the semi-arid Sahelian zone and desertification/degradation of arable lands is of major concern for livelihoods and food security. In the wake of the Sahel droughts in the early 1970s and 1980s, the UN focused on the problem of desertification by organizing the UN Conference on Desertification (UNCOD) in Nairobi in 1976. This fuelled a significant increase in the often alarmist popular accounts of desertification as well as scientific efforts in providing an understanding of the mechanisms involved. The global interest in the subject led to the nomination of desertification as focal point for one of three international environmental conventions: the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), emerging from the Rio conference in 1992. This implied that substantial efforts were made to quantify the extent of desertification and to understand its causes. Desertification is a complex and multi-faceted phenomenon aggravating poverty that can be seen as both a cause and a consequence of land resource depletion. As reflected in its definition adopted by the UNCCD, desertification is “land degradation in arid, semi-arid[,] and dry sub-humid areas resulting from various factors, including climate variation and human activities” (UN, 1992). While desertification was seen as a phenomenon of relevance to drylands globally, the Sahel-Sudan region remained a region of specific interest and a significant amount of scientific efforts have been invested to provide an empirically supported understanding of both climatic and anthropogenic factors involved. Despite decades of intensive research on human–environmental systems in the Sahel, there is no overall consensus about the severity of desertification and the scientific literature is characterized by a range of conflicting observations and interpretations of the environmental conditions in the region. Earth Observation (EO) studies generally show a positive trend in rainfall and vegetation greenness over the last decades for the majority of the Sahel and this has been interpreted as an increase in biomass and contradicts narratives of a vicious cycle of widespread degradation caused by human overuse and climate change. Even though an increase in vegetation greenness, as observed from EO data, can be confirmed by ground observations, long-term assessments of biodiversity at finer spatial scales highlight a negative trend in species diversity in several studies and overall it remains unclear if the observed positive trends provide an environmental improvement with positive effects on people’s livelihood.

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Lukasiewicz, Anna, Stephen Dovers, Libby Robin, Jennifer McKay, Steven Schilizzi, and Sonia Graham, eds. Natural Resources and Environmental Justice. CSIRO Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9781486306381.

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Environmental management involves making decisions about the governance of natural resources such as water, minerals or land, which are inherently decisions about what is just or fair. Yet, there is little emphasis on justice in environmental management research or practical guidance on how to achieve fairness and equity in environmental governance and public policy. This results in social dilemmas that are significant issues for government, business and community agendas, causing conflict between different community interests. Natural Resources and Environmental Justice provides the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of justice research in Australian environmental management, identifying best practice and current knowledge gaps. With chapters written by experts in environmental and social sciences, law and economics, this book covers topical issues, including coal seam gas, desalination plants, community relations in mining, forestry negotiations, sea-level rise and animal rights. It also proposes a social justice framework and an agenda for future justice research in environmental management. These important environmental issues are covered from an Australian perspective and the book will be of broad use to policy makers, researchers and managers in natural resource management and governance, environmental law, social impact and related fields both in Australia and abroad.

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Fitzsimons, James, Ian Pulsford, and Geoff Wescott, eds. Linking Australia's Landscapes. CSIRO Publishing, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9780643107052.

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Networks of land managed for conservation across different tenures have rapidly increased in number (and popularity) in Australia over the past two decades. These include iconic large-scale initiatives such as Gondwana Link, the Great Eastern Ranges Initiative, Habitat 141°, and the South Australian NatureLinks, as well as other, landscape-scale approaches such as Biosphere Reserves and Conservation Management Networks. Their aims have been multiple: to protect the integrity and resilience of many Australian ecosystems by maintaining and restoring large-scale natural landscapes and ecosystem processes; to lessen the impacts of fragmentation; to increase the connectivity of habitats to provide for species movement and adaptation as climate changes; and to build community support and involvement in conservation. This book draws out lessons from a variety of established and new connectivity conservation initiatives from around Australia, and is complemented by international examples. Chapters are written by leaders in the field of establishing and operating connectivity networks, as well as key ecological and social scientists and experts in governance. Linking Australia's Landscapes will be an important reference for policy makers, natural resource managers, scientists, and academics and tertiary students dealing with issues in landscape-scale conservation, ecology, conservation biology, environmental policy, planning and management, social sciences, regional development, governance and ecosystem services.

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